I ran across a pretty good deal on a new hard drive, my 40g one is about 90% full now, so I found a 200g at a very decent price.

Now my question is, what do I do with it? I know how to hook it up, but what files do I put where? which would be the best/easiest to move and which will make my computer run best?

I do not have a ton of music, probably about 3000 songs or so. I dont do any gaming, dont run any large programs, dont have a lot of pics stored. So, my question is, how do I decide what to move over and what to leave where it is?

Originally posted by StaggerLeeI ran across a pretty good deal on a new hard drive, my 40g one is about 90% full now, so I found a 200g at a very decent price.

Now my question is, what do I do with it? I know how to hook it up, but what files do I put where? which would be the best/easiest to move and which will make my computer run best?

I do not have a ton of music, probably about 3000 songs or so. I dont do any gaming, dont run any large programs, dont have a lot of pics stored. So, my question is, how do I decide what to move over and what to leave where it is?

Hard to answer. Installed programs are hard to just "move over". You'd have to uninstall and reinstall. Also it depends on the speed of the drives. If your old one runs at 7200RPM and the new one at 5400RPM then leave important stuff on the old one. If the new one is faster, move the whole OS over to it and use it as your main drive(use Ghost or something similar). If they are the same speed....well move enough to have 10 gig free on your old drive at least I would say.

And by the way 3000 songs is a lot of music in my book. Certainly a decent amount of hard drive space. Most songs are about 4 MB on average, so 12g is a ton.

They have a ton of money to throw at this - and they're looking at other ways of increasing that stream via increased royalty rates for terrestrial and web-based radio. For the RIAA, his fight is ultimately about control of the industry.